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Clive Robbins obituaryhttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/25/clive-robbins
Educationist and pioneer of music therapy for children with disabilities<p>Together with the American composer and pianist Paul Nordoff, the British educationist Clive Robbins, who has died aged 84, founded the <a href="http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk" title="">Nordoff Robbins</a> approach to what they called &quot;creative music therapy&quot;. During their 16-year partnership, they demonstrated music's capacity for reaching many developmentally and multiply disabled children. They did this by developing improvisation strategies to enable the children to become more communicative, socially aware, expressive and emotionally balanced.</p><p>The pair met in 1958, when Nordoff visited the <a href="http://www.sunfield.org.uk/history.htm" title="The Sunfield website">Sunfield</a> children's home in Stourbridge, West Midlands, where Clive was working. At the time, Sunfield saw itself as a &quot;curative educational community&quot; following the principles of imagination and creativity promoted by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. They set about their experimental musical work with the children there, many of them profoundly disabled, in 1959-60. Appealing melodies, rhythms and harmonies were tailored to each child, who could respond through playing a side drum and cymbal; the sessions were recorded and transcribed. Clive's contribution lay in setting a direction for his partner's musicianship, documenting the work and finding a language for communicating their ideas to other professionals.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/25/clive-robbins">Continue reading...</a>MusicDisabilityEducationCultureSocietyChildrenSun, 25 Dec 2011 16:11:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/25/clive-robbins.Clive Robbins, centre, with Paul McCartney helping children to learn through music. Photograph: ..Clive Robbins, centre, with Paul McCartney helping children to learn through music. Photograph: .Pauline Etkin2011-12-25T16:11:03Z